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  1. 30 minutes ago, cmcollander said:

    Well, I will definitely be glad to find out results, no matter the outcome. I'm at an uninteresting school, with a topic about a novel method for robotic manipulators to determine how to grab an object. Not very hopeful about winning, but my PhD will be much easier if I do. Good luck to all!

    I doubt I'll be able to sleep tonight....

    Hey now, everyone feels that way. I’ve certainly questioned the importance of my research, but it is important at the end of the day! Whether what you’re doing is making a small piece fit into a larger puzzle, or just simply helping you become a better scientist/engineer so that you can make a bigger impact one day, it’s important. 

  2. I’m so nervous because I don’t know how I’ll take it with either outcome. I’m still quite content with my application when I pulled it up a couple days ago to point out the fact to my boyfriend that I said something about how I wanted to increase awareness on how the power system/electricity works after our president announced that wind turbines caused cancer a couple days ago. 

    Overall I’m quite happy and proud of what I’ve submitted, but I’m petrified that I made some small error that screwed me over in the end.

    It’s something that I’ve accepted that it’s okay if I’m not awarded, but the rejection will still hurt 

  3. 1 hour ago, phyanth said:

    Hey y'all, I was just at a conference with the NSF head of my academic field, and she said that they were implementing a new computer system, so the application processing this year is running almost a month behind. Hope this helps!

    i sure hope not, mostly because I'm tired of waiting lol

  4. 21 minutes ago, JDNet said:

    Does anyone know how the 1500 offers are broken down by field? Presumably, there are also different acceptance rates depending on the field, I wonder which field has the highest likelihood of receiving an award. 

    I believe it's relatively the same across fields. Possibly higher in some of the smaller fields since every application counts as a larger chunk of percent acceptance. It's tough to tell because NSF doesn't release those stats (and rightfully so, since people would tailor their application to a less popular field to increase chances of winning).

     

    It'll most likely impact the topic areas where people receive the most awards (there's quite a few where upwards of 100 are awarded); I doubt that they'd reduce the awards for the subject areas where 5-25 people are awarded, since the loss of one award is a significant decrease in funding for that area. 

  5. Electrical engineering here! One of the professors in my department told me they rescheduled the review panels right after the shutdown ended, and they were like mid-February. I'm assuming they're trying verrrry hard to get results out as early as they can before April 15. I wouldn't be surprised if the results are released on not Tuesday/Friday or the maintenance notification doesn't go up because the shutdown was a very special circumstance affecting the timeline. 

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